PARIS, FRANCE: EVE SA, headquartered in Palaiseau, France, is leading the design team acceleration and emulation market, according to a report.

In its latest report, titled Register Transfer Level Market Trends 2009, the market research company Gary Smith EDA, based in Santa Clara, California, the United States, said it has assessed the market share of EVE SA at 28 per cent for 2008.

According to Gary Smith EDA, EVE SA offers what many consider as the "true design team acceleration and emulation boxes"

Gary Smith EDA defines the design team acceleration and emulation market (as opposed to the verification team acceleration and emulation market) as "hardware-based verification solutions which fit on a designer's desktop and which do not impose restrictions on environmental conditions."

Gary Smith, founder and chief analyst of Gary Smith EDA, said in a commentary that designers need an emulation box in order to do any kind of software verification.

EVE SA, according Smith, have penetrated an array of fast-paced markets – including processors, multi-media, graphics, wireless, consumer electronics and communications. These segments demand high-execution speed, capacity, pricing, thorough and fast-design debugging, short-compile times, multi-user capabilities as well as scalability.

The report revealed that the RTL market is now going through a "tumultuous period" and that the shift to the ESL has been mainly responsible for the decline in the RTL market.

The RTL market, however, will be "back in full swing" either by 2010 or by 2011, with the built-up user-demand pushing up purchases of tools, the market firm's report stressed.